Compare Suite - file and folder compare tool

Compare Suite, is a file and folder comparison tool designed to help people comparing electronic documents. Document comparison is necessary to learn what changes were made in file and if these changes are correct.

Compare Suite is a feature-rich utility that supports not only many file formats for comparison, but provides a lot of useful functions that make the comparison process really easy and powerful.

Quality assurance specialists, software developers and office users are those who use Compare Suite on daily basis to ensure the high quality of document management.

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Learn more about Compare Suite features and functions below. It is really powerful file and folder compare tool, which helped many professionals with automation, quality assurance, version control and team communication issues.

Compare files of various formats with Compare Suite

Among supported file formats for comparison there are Word (.doc and .docx) documents, Rich Text Format (RTF) files,  Excel Spreadsheets (.xls, .xlsx), Open Office files, Acrobat (PDF) documents, Web Pages files (.htm), Archives (.zip and .rar), multimedia files, picture files, binary files and folders.

Unique features

Compare Suite is known for some unique features, such as comparison by keywords, ignoring text while comparison, powerful reporting functions. Industry standard features include comparison by words and by chars, syntax highlighting, command line support, merge function.

Target audience of Compare Suite

Compare Suite is a tool that  provides wide range of quality assurance and control functions for wide range of prospective customers.

• Quality assurance specialists use Compare Suite to find out what changes are there in document, if these changes are correct. It is easy to automate quality assurance using command line interface.

• Software developers and software testers use Compare Suite for version control purposes, e.g. finding the difference between two version of the same document. Compare Suite can not only compare documents, but highlight syntax.

• Employees in office, e.g. people who work with electronic documents in office can use Compare Suite to find changes that were made between documents, to compare archives, to do basic statistical analysis of the document, e.g. count the number of unique and common keywords. With comparison report it is easy to trace modifications and share changes details with co-workers.

Compare documents with Compare Suite

Compare Suite supports various popular file formats for comparison. For some formats Compare Suite uses special filters, for other formats the program provides syntax highlighting, making it easier to analyze changes within document.

Compare popular office formats

Here is the short list of supported file formats:

• Microsoft Word® documents, e.g. files with extension .doc, .docx
• Microsoft Excel® spreadsheets and workbooks, e.g. files with extension .doc, .xlsx
• Adobe Acrobat® PDF files and documents
• Rich Text Format files (RTF)
• Web Pages Files (htm, html)
• Information from picture and multimedia files
• Binary files
• PowerPoint presentation

Compare with syntax highlighting

Also, for some formats the syntax highlighting is available, some of these formats are:

• Object Pascal files and documents (pas, pp, dpr, dpk, inc)
• HTML files and documents (htm, html)
• C/C++ files (c, cpp, h, hpp)
• C# (cs) files
• Cascading Style Sheet (css) files
• JavaScript (js) files
• XML (xml, xsd, xsl, xslt, dtd) files and documents
• MS-Dos Batch (bat, cmd) files
• PHP (php, php3, phtml, inc) files
• x86 Assembly (asm) files
• SQL (sql) files

Getting Compare Suite

If you are interested in Compare Suite we do recommend to try it first. We provide our users with 30-day evaluation version without any functional limitations.

• Test Compare Suite in the way you need. Download 30-day fully-functional evaluation version.
• Once you tested Compare Suite and satisfied with its functions, please, purchase a full version of the program.

Compare Folders and Archives

The folder comparison function in Compare Suite is very powerful and easy to use.

• It is easy to compare two folders. You can fine-tune Compare Suite to always compare the content of files or compare just the date and time stamp.
• Using Include and Exclude filters. As there might be a lot of files to compare, you have an option to include only certain file types or exclude some files according to mask.
• Compare archive files and documents. Compare Suite can work with WinZip (.zip) or WinRar (.rar) archives just as with simple folders

Folder comparison is a real time-saver in case:

• You need to compare a set of documents and find changes
• You need to have a detailed single-document report about what changes where made
• You are going to synchronize changes between two projects Compare Suite will help you much. 

Comparison features and functions

There are a number of features that make Compare Suite very useful for quality assurance specialists, software developers or just people who want to save huge time and manage documents in effective way.

Info panel and status bar

Info panel and status bar in Compare Suite are a real time savers. Make sure you know what information is available there.

Basically, you can learn all statistics about changes that were found in compared documents, e.g. the number of new lines, changes lines, deleted lines.

The information on Info Panel changes much if you change the comparison method.

By keywords compare method and info panel

For instance, if you will use the "By keywords" compare method the program will show the information, which can be used for basic statistical analysis of the text. Compare Suite will show:

• The number of unique keywords in each document
• The number of common keywords

More over, with "by keywords" compare method you will be able to browse through these unique keywords and get an idea about what your documents are about.

Finally, information on status bar will help you to understand the coloring scheme used in Compare Suite to highlight new words, modified words or deleted words. 

Merge Documents with Compare Suite

It is easy to compare and then merge two documents with Compare suite.

Please, note: the merge functions will work only for plain text files. If you will use merge function for, say, MS Word files, you will be asked to save modified file as plain text file.

It is easy to access Merge function from Compare Suite:

1. Compare two files.

2. Find some difference in the file via browsing comparison results or using navigation buttons.

3. Right-click on the found difference. Select "Apply change", "Delete change" or "Insert" change

Please note: if you did something wrong you can do undo or redo.

Comparison methods: compare by words, by chars, by keywords

Compare Suite supports three comparison methods:

• Industry standard comparison methods are "by words" and "by chars"

• The unique comparison method is "by keywords".

While "By Words" and "By Chars" comparison methods can be used for documents with common ancestor only, the "By Keywords" comparison method can be used for any document, in this way user may obtain detailed statistics about documents.

Ignoring while comparison

There often might be a situation when you need to ignore certain keywords in documents you compare.

• For instance, if two documents have a data/time stamp that doesn't matter for this very comparison task, then it is easy to fine-tune Compare Suite to ignore it. In this case, it is a good idea to use "line ignoring".

• Also, there is an option to ignore certain keywords, for instance, you can manage to ignore keyword "cat", in this way Compare Suite will ignore changes in this keyword. If two documents will contain "cat" and "cats", Compare Suite will not show that there is a difference between two documents.

Another good example on how this feature can help you:

• Imagine, there is a line which contains some random identification of document. What you can do is to use the syntax like: {DOC_ID 1}, in this way you will tell Compare Suite to ignore the first line after the line with keyword "DOC_ID".

HTML comparison reports

There is very useful and powerful report generation feature in Compare Suite, which allows to represent information about modifications as a html report, which is easy to read, print or share.

There are various reports available in Compare Suite:

• For file comparison it is possible to have standard report, which includes the original files and modified text. It is also possible to create changes only reports or report for one side only or a combination - a changes only report for one side.

• There are 3 types of folder comparison reports that allow to get information in 3 different ways - from short report with changes only, to advanced report with text of all files.

Automation with command line

Command line interface is a simple way to integrate Compare Suite with business system or to integrate it into your own quality control process.

The general idea behind integration is the following:

• Pass two file or folder names to Compare Suite;

• Wait for comparison and check resulted reports;